ECHO – #2 Paradise in a Dream

Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright

As sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.

O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet, 

Where thirsting longing eyes

Watch the slow door
That opening, letting in, lets out no more.

Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live 

Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:

Speak low, lean low
As long ago, my love, how long ago.